Genesis 16

1 no children. A calamity; sometimes a punishment. See xxv. 21; Lev. xx. 20; Jer. xxii. 30; and cp. Psa. cxxvii. 3, 4.

7 angel. Messenger. Any Divine agent or messenger, whether a providential dispensation, a man, a being of a higher order, or, as here, when called “the angel [of] Jehovah,” the WORD of God, revealing Him in human form (Exod. xxiii. 20, 21; see also ch. xlviii. 16; Exod. iii. 2; xiv. 19; Isa. lxiii. 9; Josh. v. 13; Judg. ii. 1; vi. 11; xiii. 3); in all which passages the angel is spoken of in language, and his appearance attended by circumstances, which betoken actual, personal Deity). Fulfilled in the history of the various tribes of Arabs, many of whom are descended from Ishmael; and who have even to the present day remained a fierce, hardy, and distinct race. For many years they subsisted largely by plunder.

13. Thou. Perhaps the best translation is, “Thou art the God of vision” (i.e., “that revealest Thyself”); “God Seen” (Moffatt). The last clause means, “Lo, I live, after seeing God?”

14. Beer-lahal-roi. “Well of life and vision,” i.e., of life after a vision of God.